Power, money, and violence

My parents once told me how, as a child, I used to take the tip they left on the small plates after receiving excellent service in restaurants.

To be honest, I don't remember it exactly.

Perhaps, these are events that embarrassment erased from my memory.

In any case, the fact in self; is to denote that one has contact with money from a very early age.

Of course, now the trend is different; since we are entering the phase of eliminating coins (metallic) and (paper) banknotes by digitizing them.

Sure, your grandchildren will only see this type of money in the future Metaverse as a curiosity of the past.

Instead, they will deal with some of today's cryptocurrencies, where Bitcoin Cash will most likely play a leading role.

But if technology will lead us in the future to an era of abundance and efficiency, would cryptocurrencies have a reason to exist?

If you are familiar with the original Star Trek saga or the big screen installments, you will remember the use of devices that instantly replicate objects, including food and drink.

In the late eighties, I was amazed to hold in my hands a cell phone very similar to the one used by Captain Kirk and Mr. Spock.

Tomorrow, it is a reality.

Even Motorola produced a cell phone model almost identical to the one in the series in the sixties.

Today, we see 3D printers manufacturing parts that resemble the replicator of the starship USS Enterprise (NCC-1701).

So it is not so far-fetched to think that in the future, the use of money will disappear if humanity resolves its differences and achieves an economy of abundance, abolishing excessive consumption based on limitless debt.

However, although this is a desirable utopia based on the confidence of techno-scientific progress, we must move forward with reservation.

In this idyllic vision, I see much resemblance to the Marxist communist illusion of failed and disastrous regimes for those who allowed themselves to be dazzled by such proposals.

Imagine having a free Star Trek kind of replicator at home.

Who will need money to buy things or food?

Sounds fantastic!

But first, we will have to get rid of the effects of the power game.

Well, you will agree with me that money is intimately linked to power.

There is nothing wrong with power in itself.

The problem lies in the fact that money is an instrument of domination of the few over the many.

History records episodes where those who monopolize violence impose taxes on those who only want to live in peace and security.

So power uses the money to collect taxes and backs it up with violence.

You will agree with me; whoever has the power will not want to give it up so easily.

Well, as far as I know, no advanced society has ever dispensed with money; Obviously, money is an artificial object with no inherent value (in itself) derived from accounting, i.e., a construct of the human mind.

So, for the time being, sticking to the cryptocurrency revolution is the most desirable, convenient, and close to the utopian world of Star Trek.

Source: Image by Adam Evertsson on Pixabay 

Closing thoughts

You will be convinced, as I am, that cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin Cash are the necessary means to abolish a monetary system based on limitless and perverse debt.

A system that sustains capitalist merchants and usurpers the benefits of techno-scientific development and the exploitation of hydrocarbons as a source of cheap energy.

Perhaps it is too early to appreciate the potential of cryptocurrencies, crypto assets, and blockchain infrastructure. A technology that is shaping itself around money to the point of transcending it, giving an unsuspected utility.

It is hard for me to imagine a society free of money as free of violence to sustain it. But it is a desirable utopia as long as it respects and fosters freedom to reach the potentialities of the human soul.

Dreaming is the first stage for the journey we need to undertake.

Those of us in the crypto world are embarking on the ship of the future.

An original article by @Jnavedan

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